Resistive Action Video Games Enhance Functional Fitness of Disabled Workers in Sheltered Workshops

National Taiwan Normal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Training program incorporating video aerobic exercise, action video game and resistive action video game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06504355

NSTC 110-2410-H-003 -109 -MY2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aims: Investigating the efficacy of resistive action video games on functional fitness (FF) of disabled workers in sheltered workshops (DWSWs).

Methods: Thirty-two DWSWs participated in this study and were allocated as either experimental group (EG) or control group (CG). DWSWs in EG underwent three 60-minute sessions each week for 12 weeks; those in CG maintained daily routine. The outcomes included all components FF and were measures at pre-, mid- and post-training.

Full description

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of a training program including resistive action video games on functional fitness (FF) of disabled workers in sheltered workshops (DWSWs).

Material and methods: Thirty-two DWSWs participated in this study and were allocated as either experimental group (EG) or control group (CG). DWSWs in EG underwent three 60-minute training sessions each week for 12 weeks. One of the session is group training and two of the sessions are individual session. In group session, the participants do aerobic exercise following a video which was launch by the health management ministry of city government. In the individual session, the participants play play two video games alternatively. The video games used are Fitness Boxing 2 and Adventure Ring-Fit. In addition to the training program, the participants in the EG maintain work and leisure routine in addition to the added training. The participants in the CG maintained daily work and leisure routine.The outcome measures included body mass index, body weight, body fat percentage, skeletal muscle rate, muscle strength, cardiopulmonary endurance, flexibility, balance and agility. All participants must be evaluated of the outcome measures at pre-, mid- and post-training time point.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• (1) aged more than 20 years; (2) diagnosis of an intellectual disability, autism, or a psychiatric disorder; (3) employed for at least 6 hours per day and five days a week in the sheltered workshop; (4) capable of following verbal instructions to enable outcome measurement and of participating in the training program; and (5) voluntary agreement to participate and signed the informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• (1) advisement against performing moderate- to high-intensity physical activities by a physician and (2) physical limitations preventing independent walking or standing without an assistive device.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the experimental group participated in three 60-minute training sessions each week for 12 weeks. One of the session was group training. The other two session were individual training. In the group training session, the participants participate in the video aerobic exercise; in the individual sessions, the participants play action and resistive action video games: Fitness Boxing 2 and Adventure Ring-Fit. All participants in the experimental group wore a hear rate monitoring watch so that the researchers make sure that medium level of physical activities was achieved in each session. The participants underwent pre-, mid- and post-training measures of the outcome parameters which includes body weight, body mass index, basal metabolic rate, skeletal muscle rate, body fat percentage, flexibility, balance and agility.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Training program incorporating video aerobic exercise, action video game and resistive action video game

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in the control group underwent no any special training but maintain daily work and leisure routines. They underwent pre-, mid- and post-experimental measures of the outcome parameters which was the same as those measured in the experimental group.